"The difficulty of the ordeal seems a means of testing the authenticity of his/her commitment to the project of becoming French," the sociologists Didier Fassin and Sarah Mazouz concluded in their 2009 paper "What Is It to Become French?
James Barney Jr, spoke calmly and eloquently about his ordeal from hospital, where he was tucked up in bed with a teddy bear by his side.
In the end, this ordeal eased my guilt about leaving my son's side at times.
[16] Mother had been courageous, it seemed to me, through the ordeal of the flood.
Through this ordeal Heng lay stiff and silent.
It was a terrible ordeal, and they had, moreover, made such a fire in the stove, that the room seemed quite red hot.
The Silver Shilling's journey of pain and ordeal ended there teaching her 'the triumph of justice'.
